New Log Scrubber!

[Ruby]

Um. I did? Uh...no problem?

It works for me now!! *Yay!*

It only leaves a few things in, like a couple of OOC poses and guild stuff. Other than that, it works like a charm!

[Glyn]

The log scrubber now understands HTML logs! Not hard to add at all, in the end. None of the colouring is preserved in the scrubbed log, but I figure that's no great loss since people are mostly posting this stuff to blogs and other places anyway.

[Glyn]

I've made some improvements to the log scrubber recently and wanted to let people know about them. Some of these changes have been on my mind for a while but I'd not had time, and some are Tyre's ideas. I love suggestions, as they make the scrubber more useful for everyone, so please keep them coming. Thanks, Tyre!

Someone experienced a bug on December 29 where the scrubber died on a curly quotation mark. I'm terribly sorry about that. Bug fixed now. The good news is that's the only time the scrubber seems to have failed in the past few months. Yay!

For the folks who use "page" for IC poses, you can now choose not to scrub pages along with other OOC chatter.

You can now tell the log scrubber to leave OOC corrections to IC poses intact. Right now, it looks for OOC poses containing a single asterisk, because it's easy to spot and many people use that convention already. I find it a lot easier to locate and make corrections after the scrubber has removed most of the distracting text.

Tidying up line wrapping on room descriptions can be a pain when making a log ready for blogging, and so now there's an option for doing that automatically.

Glyn

[Antheia]

Glyn, I don't even know how to properly express how awesome you are! This is really great.

[Glyn]

One thing the scrubber has done for a long time is remove the prefix "From List Cavern>", so that poses echoed from another room can be treated as normal for scrubbing. Without this feature, lots of OOC poses started cluttering up my logs when I would watch a spar from the viewing gallery, for instance. I only know the List Cavern example. If there are others, could people let me know what prefixes they use? I can easily add them. Feel free to post to this thread or message me privately. Thanks!

[Glyn]

Apologies for the temporary outage of the log scrubber recently. My web hosting service expired and I had to renew it. Everything should be back to normal now.